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Local meteorologists could face layoffs amid new initiative with The Weather Channel (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io to c/news@beehaw.org

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The new initiative will be rolled out across 27 stations and feature "additional visual storytelling capabilities," Allen Media Group says.

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[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Centralizing local coverage has been tried at scale before. At least with weather, there's less opportunity to get street names wrong, but the only plausible outcome here is a worse product.